a mouseclick vs a held mouse

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SSS	(Posted 2007) [#1]

hey everyone I was wondering whether there were any built in commands to handle a clicked mouse vs a dragged mouse?

GfK	(Posted 2007) [#2]

MouseHit()
MouseDown()

SSS	(Posted 2007) [#3]

the problem with that is that mousehit() returns true even if you continue holding the mouse. I mean I hve code that works alright, I was just wondering if there was something easier.

GfK	(Posted 2007) [#4]

MouseHit() only returns 'true' if you click the mouse. It will continue to return 'false' thereafter until you click the mouse button again.

Working example:

'check results in the output window
Graphics 640,480
While Not KeyDown(key_escape)
	Cls
	If MouseHit(1)
		Print "Mouse clicked"
	EndIf
	Flip
Wend

You should post some code.

SSS	(Posted 2007) [#5]

Basically it's for a RTS game that I tried to start last night. It needs to differentiate between a single click and click that continues to be held down. I have some code that gives the desired functionality that I can post but it's not exactly clean. In fact, that's the reason why I wanted to see if there was a built in way of doing it.